A glowing hailstorm poses next to Bear Butte in South Dakota, June 2022.

Finally captured a bucket list shot (flowers + lurking tornado) with this EF2 tornado near Hawk Springs, Wyoming in June 2023. Luckily, it did very little damage.

A supercell poses behind the infamous old schoolhouse near Alliance, Nebraska in July 2021.

A supercell producing 3+-inch hailstones turns dramatic colors at sunset as it approaches Faith, South Dakota in July 2021.

I love capturing cheery sunflowers with storms, like this shelfie in central Colorado in August 2022.

A supercell traverses the backside of Monument Valley, Arizona in Sept 2023. We watched most of this show with our mouths hanging open; this isn’t a place we usually find supercells!

This supercell traveling from southern Wyoming to the Pawnee Grasslands in Colorado in June 2023 was undergoing a dramatic unraveling as it began to fall apart.

This sub-severe storm caught the last sunset glow as it dramatically collapsed in northern Colorado in June 2021.

A perspective shot of a supercell near Bison, South Dakota in July 2021.

A supercell reaches peak intensity at golden hour near Faith, South Dakota in July 2021.

The morning of Episode 14 of the Kilauea eruption in Hawaii we were graced with a spectacular rainbow spanning the caldera as the south fountain exploded. I swear that’s a heart in the clouds.

Kilauea volcano in Hawaii showing immense power as she explodes rocks (tephra) up to miles away during Episode 12.

This image was taken from an open-door helicopter over Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii as its fountains reached 300-400 feet.

A landscape perspective of near-dawn at Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii. The lights on the bottom left are cars passing by on nearby Saddle Rd.

The glowing twin fountains of Episode 12 of the Kilauea volcano eruption in Hawaii.

A different perspective of Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii, viewing the eruption from the shoulder of the shield volcano facing north toward neighboring Mauna Kea.

A lava flow from Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii.

The twin tall fountains of Episode 12 of the Kilauea volcano eruption in Hawaii, blowing smoke circles.

Love this perspective with people watching Episode 12 of the Kilauea volcano eruption as Mauna Loa looks on in the background. Taken in Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park.